Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-18
C LEGISLATION.
The City Paternals Meet and Grind Out
. Big Grist Of Business-Certain
Requirements Of the City to be En-
forced.

The City Council met yesterday evening
at the City Hall about half-past 8. Messrs.
Owsley, Lavell, Bateman. Jahreiss, Lloyd,
Forbis and Walton were present with the
Mayor in the chair and Clerk Speer at bis
desk. The Clerk read the minutes, and a
trifiDg correction being made. they stood
approved. Several bills of city officers and
others against the city, approved by the
Finance Committee, amounting to between
$500 and $500, we're received and war.
rants ordered drawn. Mr.. Walton, from
the Committee on Finance, reported that
they had requested the City Attorney to
correspond with the Fire Extinguisher
Manufacturing Company of Chicago, and if
the engines come up to contract they will
be paid for. He also reported that the
committee had examined ex-Treasurer
| Hauswirth's books and found them correct
with the exception of a balance of $47O.17
City Attorney be requested to
THE BALANCE
of $47O.17 from ex-City Treasurer Haus.
| with. Mr.. Lavell, from the Finance Commit
the. reported they had found the telephone
and electric wires distractions, as pre-
viously complained of, and that the clerk
had been requested to communicate with
them about it. The clerk said he had re-
ceived no reply. Mr.. Murray, of the tele-
phone company, who was present, by per-
mission stated that they had intended
placing new poles, but wanted instructions
from the Council as to where the poles
should be placed-inside or outside of the
gutter. The general custom was to place
them outside the gutter. Mr.. Lavell
thought that they had better be placed in
side the gutter, as otherwise travel would
be interfered with. Mr.. Murray only
wanted permission to do so, AMI he would
proceed with their erection at once. They
would raise the wires much higher than
they now are. Several councilmen asked
questions of Mr.. Murray about the adj
vantage of various positions for the poles.
The telephone company would place three
poles to the block, set five and a half feet
deep. Mr.. Bateman moved that the Bell
Telephone Company be permitted to place
their poles on Main street
TWELVE EET RON THE BUILDING LINE
of the street to the inside of the poles.
Carried. Mr.. Lavell suggested that Mr..
Murray be instructed to place a pole at
each corner and one in the middle of the
block. but MI. Murray showed that it
would be better to have them placed at
equal distances apart. They would be
painted and present q regular appearance.
Several bills were referred to the Finance
Committee. A petition was read by the
Clerk which had been laid away among pa
pers by his predecessor, which he had re-
suscitated, praying for a crossing between
Main and Wyoming on Park street about
midway, which was referred to the Streets
and Alleys Committee. The Clerk stated
he had been instructed to draw an ordi-
name taxing water companies, but he had
deferred doing so as the old law had been
repealed and q new one enacted which went
into effect July /. On motion OF Mr.. Lloyd
the City Attorney was instructed to draw
an ordinance at the maximum rates where
by the city can tax all classes OF business.
including the Silver Bow Water Company,
SO as to collect one-fOurth the amount
OF the Territorial license, and to make the
city license law
CONFORM TO THE GENERAL
license law. The Street and Alley Com
mittee were instructed to purchase a new
cart for the city. Mr.. Loeber wanted to
know why the City Attorney and Treasurer
did not bring an action against the Water
Company and the First National Bank for
taxes. The Clerk said he had never been
authorized. Mr.. Loeber feared that the
city was going to lose these by the new or
dinance the Attorney was instructed to
draw. By permission Judge Hamilton said
that the instructions we're to bring the
action if they thought it advisable and
they had not thought it advisable. The
ordinance to be passed did not i%nvalidate
the right to any previous right of action.
Mr.. Lavell wanted to know what the Elec-
trio Light Company was going to do in the
way of raising their wires and Mr.. Loeber
added that they had found them Us low as
ten feet. The Clerk replied that he had
notified the company and that Mr.. D'Acheul
had promised to bring the matter up at
the next meeting Of his company. He had
advised Mr.. D'Acheul that
II CASE OF
the company was liable for damages. Mr..
Forbis thought some action should be
anything in the ordinance requiring a GER
tain height. 1t was stated that the ordi-
nance required them not to impede or in
terfere with travel. The wires had to be
three feet above or below the telephone
wires. Mr.. Harper, by permission, sug.
gested that the time had come when all the
of the city should be defined
III reference to the numerous improvements
going on and contemplated; when the city
should define the rights they intended to
permit them all to exercise. Mr.. Loeber re-
ported that the Street and Alley Commit
tee had examined into the matter OF grades
Broadway, west of Main, which had
been referred to them at the last meeting
and found variances in the height of the
on both sides of the street. 1t
therefore ordered that the property
owners on both sides of that portion of
be instructed to
RAISE THEIR SIDEWALKS
to grade and that if they fail to comply
the foreman OF the carts was ordered to do
the work at their cost. The foreman of
the carts was also instructed to lay a side |
walk on grade on the west side of Utah /
first notifying the owners to so, and, |
they refuse, then to do so for them al
their expense. Mr.. Walton from a special |
reported that the contract for
the improvement Of the City Hall and the
Clerks Office bad been let and that work
be commenced tomorrow Thurs
Mr.. Harper by permission sub
mitted some additional grades that he
asked to nave established. His report was
to the Streets and Alleys Co n.
to report at the next meeting. The
are on East Granite at the bridge |
over the gulch and on North Wyoming
street at the corner of Copper. The Coun-
then adjourned to the Got instant.